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Taylor, John, 1578-1653 (poet)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1578 - 1653

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John Taylor, Conference held in the Castle of St Angelo, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.23
Scope and Contents

(1) 'A conference held in the castell of Ste Angelo by the pope, the emperor and the king of Spaine', beginning (the pope being the speaker) 'Welcome dear sonne unto our courte of Rome'. The work was edited, with prefatory matter of his own, by John Taylor the water poet in 1631, under the title 'The suddaine turne of fortune's wheele'; (2) 'David's sins, 1 Sam. xxi', a poem, beginning 'In Juda and Jerusalem ...'.

Dates: seventeenth century
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